From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 30 11:34:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA04807 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 11:34:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA04796 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 11:34:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA08820; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 14:39:09 -0400 Message-Id: <199606301839.OAA08820@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: Re: Shutdown MSGS To: valtech@caribnet.net (Sean Batson) Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 14:39:08 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) In-Reply-To: from Sean Batson at "Jun 30, 96 11:38:54 am" From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sean Batson wrote... > what is the meaning of those numbers you see when > shutting down FreeBSD. > > Sean. > I imagine you mean the descending sequence which is about the last thing you see before the reboot. (Sorry, I can't remember what it says, this OS is so stable I hardly ever have to do it :-). What's happening is that the disk write cache (disk blocks which have been changed, but are held in memory for performance reasons) is being written onto the hard disk, before marking the disk as clean. The numbers are the blocks remaining to be written. John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key